Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-10-08
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Gut are at Treport for treatment, says
the Boston Journat
Florida spiders are said to capture
large numbers of snakes in their webs,
but boots still hold the lead there as a
popular snake-trap. Huntington Free
Press.
"A COW belonging to Walter Deacon,
Of Bridgetown, n. Y, gave birth re-
Gently to a calf with four front feet and
a long, taperng nose, which hangs far
over the lower jaw.
Persian women are said to be good
housewives. They give personal
supervision and care to all the work |
and supplies, no matter how many SER
wants they may employ.
"A little girl who had been given a
placard with "take one omit became
tired of carrying it around and hung it
on the umbrella stand in a dry-goods
store where she was shopping with her
mother.
A woman, who had an irresistible
propensity to destroy, going into a
room once while tea was being pre-
pared, could not resist the temptation
to sweep the contents of the table on to
the floor.
A lady going out to the East Indies
was often heard to express wish to
experience the sensation Of drowning.
One morning, after gazing for some
time into the water, she did actually
jump overheard. Luckily for her, the
vessel was lying becalmcd, and dozen
willing men jumped in to save her
Down in Maine young man kissed
deacon's daughter. The deacon pros
ecuted him in court for it, and while
all hands were attending the trial his
sawmill took fire and burned down.
The young man was fined one dollar
and the deacon lost his sawmill. The
daughter says it served them both just
right. She is strictly impartial
An eminent writer says that cream
is an innocent, palatable, nutritious
luxury for everybody at all times. As
an antidotc for a tendency to consump-
ton it acts like a charm, and serves all
purposes intended to be served by cod
liver oil with much greater certainty
and effect. Where sweet cream can be
| had cod-liver oil is never needed.
Some German investigators have
calculated the relative liability of in
! jury to the eye, finding that if all parts
of the body We're equally exposed to
injury. wounds of the eye would bear
to wounds of other parts the proper
ton Of one in about six hundred; as a
matter of fact, the proportion is about
thirty-six in one thousand. boston
Budget
IAN orange grove in Florida re-
marks the New York Journdl Of Com
nierce "is not worth a cent more than
MI apple orchard in New England I'M
til its owner has put into it years of
hard work, much money and much i'm
patient waiting. The idea that for
tunes are to be made in Florida with
out sweat of the brow is fiction of the
land spectators. y
AT Lcary, GA, one day recently, a
man, while cleaning out his pipe with
jackknifc, accidentally cut himself
on the knee. As the wound did not
bleed or give him any trouble he went
to work. At night when he returned
home, he suddenly fell in faint. from
which he has not yet fully recovered.
1t is thought his illness was due to the
nicotine introduced into the blood by
the knife-bladc,
-"Larrikins" is the name by which
the roughs in Sydney. Australia, are
spoken of. The name is said to have
come from the reply of policeman
who was asked by the court what there
was against the prisoner whom he had
arrested. just larrikin about the
sthratcs. yer honor WAS the reply of
the officer who was an lrishman.
From that time disorderly conduct was
termed larrking, and the rough was
called larrikin.
The chimera flower is one Of the
most grotesque of its kind. When first
seen this flower resembles some un-
couth insect with long, slender, hairy
legs, creeping over the ground. being
SO balanced upon its stem as to preserve
continual motion with the points or
seeming legs just resting upon the sur
face. The coloring consists of black
and white blotches, apparently put on
with an unsteady hand without design,
producing peculiar and striking ef-
feet.
"A work on the Paris Monte-de-Piete
tells of pawncd umbrella which was
annually "rcnewedn for forty-seven
successive years. The director of the
State pawnbroking establishment at
Brussels has had in his keeping for
more than twenty years the diamonds
and other jewelry of once famous
prima donna who has somehow fallen
into poverty. Every year the interest
is punctually paid, but the trinkets
have not once been taken out of pawn.
More than once large sums have been
lent by the Brussels Mont-de-Piete upon
the regalia of impccunious German
princes.
A San Francisco jewelry store.
keeper, whois known as the "Diamond
King" edited ths Philadelphians the
other day by promenading the corridor
of the Continental Hotel thus gorge
ously arraycd, according TO the Times
On his scarf shone pigeon-bloot
ruby, surrounded with diamonds. Or
his left little finger sparkled n larg'
solitaire blue diamond. From his watcl
chain dangled Masonic mark studded
with large diamonds, and on the lef
side of his vest, just pecping out iron
under the lapel of his coat, was u mas
sive gold medal, with fringe of dia
monds running all around it.
An army of frogs is something sci
dom heard of, but there is n youn.
lady at Gainesville, Ga, who claim
to have met one only short time ag'
while she was on trip to.Tococa. Th'
column was about three hundred yard